Preliminary Guide to the Norine Shipley Norris Papers, 1895-2000

Norine Shipley Norris attended Southern Female College (also known as Cox College) in 1897-1899, and taught Sunday school in Atlanta at Kirkwood Baptist Church in the early 1900s. This collection (2009-0129) (200 items; 1.8 lin. ft.; dated 1890s-2000) includes a variety of materials from Norine Shipley Norris, in particular her school notebooks, correspondence, and catalogs from the Southern Female College, which she attended for at least two years. Of note is the correspondence from Earnest Sevier Cox, a white supremist who courted Shipley for a time (1905-1906); photographs and records from her years of teaching at Kirkwood Baptist Church (1901-1904); and her handwritten application to the Daughters of the American Revolution (1918). Also included are a number of photographs and tintypes, scrapbooks, several books of poetry and literature, and miscellaneous clippings and ephemera.

This collection (2009-0129) (200 items; 1.8 lin. ft.; dated 1890s-2000) includes a variety of materials from Norine Shipley Norris, in particular her school notebooks, correspondence, and catalogs from the Southern Female College, which she attended for at least two years. Of note is the correspondence from Earnest Sevier Cox, a white supremist who courted Shipley for a time (1905-1906); photographs and records from her years of teaching at Kirkwood Baptist Church (1901-1904); and her handwritten application to the Daughters of the American Revolution (1918). Also included are a number of photographs and tintypes, scrapbooks, several books of poetry and literature, and miscellaneous clippings and ephemera.

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This collection (2009-0129) (200 items; 1.8 lin. ft.; dated 1890s-2000) includes a variety of materials from Norine Shipley Norris, in particular her school notebooks, correspondence, and catalogs from the Southern Female College, which she attended for at least two years. Of note is the correspondence from Earnest Sevier Cox, a white supremist who courted Shipley for a time (1905-1906); photographs and records from her years of teaching at Kirkwood Baptist Church (1901-1904); and her handwritten application to the Daughters of the American Revolution (1918). Also included are a number of photographs and tintypes, scrapbooks, several books of poetry and literature, and miscellaneous clippings and ephemera.

Earnest Sevier Cox correspondence, 1905-1906

Box 1

Correspondence, 1900s

Box 1

Kirkwood Baptist Church Sunday school class, 1901-1904

Box 1

Norrine's notebooks: College Looseleaf scrapbook clippings inserts

Box 1

Norine's notebooks (3)

Box 1

Photographs

General

Box 1

Preachers

Box 1

Shipley photographs

Box 1

Armsted photographs

Box 1

No label

Box 1

Angie Norris Hauser, 2000

Box 2

Angie Norris Hauser tintypes and autograph book

Box 2

Books

Riley, James Whitcome: An Old Sweetheart of Mine, 1902

Book of poetry given to Norine Egbert Shipley by Earnest Sevier Cox, Dec. 25, 1904.

Box 2

Clay, John Cecil: In Love's Garden

Book of poetry given to Norine Egbert Shipley by Earnest Sevier Cox, Dec. 25, 1905.

Box 2

Gray, James M.: Synthetic Bible Studies, 1900

Box 2

Painter, F.V.N.: Introduction to American Literature, 1897

Box 2

Mack, Anna E.: Heaven's Distant Lamps, 1900

Box 2

Eleventh International Sunday School Convention: The Development of the Sunday School, 1780-1905, 1905

Box 2

The Poems and Drama of Lord Byron, 1884

Box 2

Hamill, H.M.: Practical Outline: Study of the Four Gospels; Life of Christ; Acts, 1904

Norine Shipley Norris was born in Conyers, Georgia, the daughter of Sarah Armistead and R.J. Shipley. Not much is known about the events of her life, but she did attend Southern Female College for at least two years, in 1897-1899; she also taught at the Kirkwood Baptist Church in the early 1900s. She was courted by Earnest Sevier Cox around that same time. She married James P. Norris on January 12, 1909, and appears to have lived most of her life in the Atlanta area.